Notes

As per https://jan.boddez.net/notes/bf2be3b017: Everything Everywhere All at Once ★☆☆☆

My feed reader seems to strip alt attributes off u-photos. My RSS feed has the alt text set to either the post title, or a truncated copy of the post content. That’s no good.

I’m really going to have to address my auto-tagging “listens.” Right now, I’m running a small mu-plugin that tries to match songs against the MusicBrainz database, all while I have mostly correct genre information in my own, albeit outdated, “music database.”

Not sure diamonds are really the best example here, but: true.

In general, [scarcity] doesn’t create value. Limiting your own product until it’s as rare as diamonds will not make it as valuable as diamonds.

Gonna set up my own “URL shortener,” just because I can. Not sure if should go for an API solution of sorts, or something simpler, based off actual post IDs or something.

Nice write-up on IndieWebifying a static site.

That said, this is exactly why I favor dynamic sites (where you’d flush the cache and that’s about it) for this type of thing:

[M]y Webmention workflow is lacking. I need to implement a way to automatically rebuild my site[.]

Syndication is another troubling topic. The process is a bit convoluted[.]

Bookmarked https://github.com/gRegorLove/php-akismet.

Bookmarked https://time.com/6200716/paper-girls-review-amazon/.

Bookmarked https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/29/paper-girls-review-amazon-prime.

Drinking a Kwak Blonde by Brouwerij Bosteels.

Worth saving not just because I’m somewhat of an IndieWeb enthusiast, but also in light of the discussion between free market fundamentalists and (more moderate) economists like Stiglitz on whether these “natural” quasi-monopolies ought to be broken up, or not.

Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms.

Bookmarked https://nenadzivanovic.in.rs/blog/2018/08/30/jigsaw-tags-and-archives/.

Stealing this for my feed reader’s entry previews. (I used to do something similar but it wasn’t nearly as clean—I think.)

Every time the media has humored these concepts as cute, or early, or acted as if the scams are “rare” and the majority of the industry operates in good faith, they have been complicit in creating meaningful financial harm to millions of people.

Once we agree that we have a problem, the status quo will show up. […] It will argue for studies and will amplify the pain that will be caused to some as we try to make things better for everyone.